Goonhub
05-13-2014, 06:04 AM
Actually most of Sec's most readily available ways to stun bad guys are laughably ineffective. Tasers only mess up your motion and don't even drop your weapon, unless they manage to burst stun you somehow, which uses up all four of your shots in one go. There's the stun baton, which you have to be close up to use, and if the other guy has a c-saber you don't want to get close up. If they have a laser, then tasering them once leaves them open to keep shooting you, and if you're the only sec officer, you don't be able to handle him in all likelihood.
Really, you have to go far further out of your way to brig someone, because you have to drag them to the brig without some assistant knocking them out of your hands and letting them get away, and if you didn't take their shit right there on the spot that means they'll still be armed when they escape. If you got the portabrig, great... assuming someone else was at Sec to get them out of the tube, because it'll take you some time to get back there and the stuns will have worn off by then, and he'll probably have managed to get the cuff off by the time you get up there again.
I don't like murdering people as sec but I can damn well see why it's such an attractive option so much of the time.
Really, you have to go far further out of your way to brig someone, because you have to drag them to the brig without some assistant knocking them out of your hands and letting them get away, and if you didn't take their shit right there on the spot that means they'll still be armed when they escape. If you got the portabrig, great... assuming someone else was at Sec to get them out of the tube, because it'll take you some time to get back there and the stuns will have worn off by then, and he'll probably have managed to get the cuff off by the time you get up there again.
I don't like murdering people as sec but I can damn well see why it's such an attractive option so much of the time.